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Honoring Mexican journalist Javier Valdez: Today, and always, our voice is our strength

Honoring Mexican journalist Javier Valdez: Today, and always, our voice is our strength

Ricardo Sandoval Palos talks about why he helped organize a global campaign to speak out against violence a month after the muckraker's assassination
June 15, 2017

“The great mistake is to live in Mexico and to be a journalist.”

Tomorrow, Storyboard and its sister Nieman Foundation outlets, Nieman Lab and Nieman Reports, will join journalists and writers the world over to honor the incredibly brave Mexican journalist Javier Valdez Cárdenas…
June 14, 2017
Annotation Tuesday! Mac McClelland and "Delusion Is the Thing With Feathers"

Annotation Tuesday! Mac McClelland and “Delusion Is the Thing With Feathers”

The writer talks about her hilariously awful trip with extreme birders for Audubon, and her bold choice of having a paragraph consisting of a single exclamation point
June 13, 2017
"The charm and the pain and the humanity" -- what great storytelling is all about

“The charm and the pain and the humanity” — what great storytelling is all about

A weekly roundup of some favorite things, for your reading and listening pleasure
June 9, 2017
5 Questions: Talal Ansari and "Welcome to America: Now Spy on Your Friends"

5 Questions: Talal Ansari and “Welcome to America: Now Spy on Your Friends”

"I think it opened the eyes of people who are so far removed from this kind of world," the BuzzFeed News writer says of his piece about FBI agents pressuring…
June 8, 2017

“It’s a little facile, maybe, and certainly hard to implement, but I’d say, as a goal in life, you could do worse than: Try to be kinder.”

Why is it great? It’s graduation season, so it seemed like a perfect time to revisit this beautiful commencement speech that the writer George Saunders gave at Syracuse University four…
June 7, 2017
In Arab world, an ancient tradition of oral storytelling gets a 21st century spin

In Arab world, an ancient tradition of oral storytelling gets a 21st century spin

In the past, "hakawati" would recount legends or fables; today, Moth-like events often tackle social issues or process trauma from war
June 6, 2017
5(ish) Questions: Dana Priest and the "terrorism industrial complex" post 9/11

5(ish) Questions: Dana Priest and the “terrorism industrial complex” post 9/11

The investigative journalist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner reflects on 30 years at The Washington Post and navigating national security concerns
June 1, 2017

“He had gone into another room, to where the buffet was, after he had watched the 12 rounds when he was the heavyweight champeen of the world, back in that last indelible summer when America dared yet dream that it could run and hide from the world, when the handsomest boy loved the prettiest girl, when streetcars still clanged and fistfights were fun, and the smoke hung low when Maggie went off to Paradise.”

Frank Deford died this week, and I’m not sure sportswriters will see his like again. The beautiful rhythm of his language was some kind of wonderful. I love this bit…
May 31, 2017
5(ish) Questions: Phoebe Zerwick and "The Last Days of Darryl Hunt"

5(ish) Questions: Phoebe Zerwick and “The Last Days of Darryl Hunt”

The writer talks about how her reporting on a wrongfully convicted man changed his life -- and how she had to write the ending, however unhappy
May 30, 2017